My 150 Favorite Movies - #95

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Alfred Hitchcock never made a bad motion picture, but Shadow of a Doubt is purportedly the director's own favorite. Starring Teresa Wright as a young woman who comes to suspect that her beloved uncle, played by Joseph Cotten, is actually the "Merry Widow" murderer the police have been searching for, Shadow... delivers all the thrills and chills we've come to expect (without special effects!) from the master, and is, without a doubt, a masterpiece.